TOI-1452 b, located 100 lightyears from Earth, is believed to be an 'ocean planet.'
, a space telescope that searches the entire sky for planetary systems close to our own. According to the study, the TESS signal showed a slight decrease in brightness every 11 days, leading astronomers to believe that the exoplanet is about 70 percent larger than Earth due to this quick orbit time. According to NASA, one “year” on TOI-1452 b is only 11 days, since it takes that amount of time to orbit its star.
“I’m extremely proud of this discovery because it shows the high calibre of our researchers and instrumentation,” said René Doyon, Université de Montréal Professor and Director of iREx and of the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic in a statement. “It is thanks to the OMM, a special instrument designed in our labs called SPIRou, and an innovative analytic method developed by our research team that we were able to detect this one-of-a-kind exoplanet.
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